At a bookstore event here half a year ago, this Mainichi Shimbun reporter met a woman from Peru who said she has lived in ...

A wave of anonymous workplace harassment posts has flooded social media platform X (formerly Twitter) in Japan, triggered by ...

Emoji date back to 1999 when they first appeared on Japanese cell phones. But it’s history goes further than that, because ...

His comments came just weeks after the first contingent of about 100 Marines from the Japanese island arrived ... and benefits, but the people of Guam are not placed in any harm’s way when ...

Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at a Buddhist temple in downtown Tokyo, eagerly stretching their hands to catch the dried ...

While ‘emoticon’ means ‘emotion’ + ‘icon’ — the right word for the little emotion expressing icons on your smartphone’s keyboard, ‘emoji’ means ‘pictograph’ in Japanese. The ‘E’ stands for picture or ...

They are harmless to people and are known to fearlessly approach ... with digestive issues or even a parasitic infection, the Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun reported. Turns out it just ...

Ichiro Suzuki, a hits machine on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, became the first Japanese player to gain entry into the National Baseball Hall of Fame when he was elected Tuesday to the class of ...

This may sound like the start of a particularly silly joke, but it was a very real challenge faced by staff at a Japanese aquarium ... turned toward makeshift “people” made from cardboard ...

(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) TOKYO (AP) — Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully icy cold water on Saturday in a pool at a Tokyo shrine, adhering to Japanese tradition to purify the ...

A Cosby High School junior, Jayden Smith, brought home a world championship ring from the WKL World Championship in Galveston, Texas, on January 4. Smith is a student of Freddie Cantrell at CC ...